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Spire Global is a 150-person space data company founded in 2012. In less than six years, Spire has built one of the world's largest satellite constellations, and we're just getting started.

As a Satellite Soil Moisture/Terrestrial Hydrology Remote Sensing Specialist at Spire, you will be an integral part of a small but agile team focused on developing and operating satellite GNSS bistatic radar missions (aka “GNSS reflections” or “GNSS-R”) for terrestrial hydrology applications.You will work across the various disciplines of bistatic radar and soil moisture remote sensing mission design and analysis, GNSS-R retrieval algorithm development, and measurement calibration and validation. You will work with the world’s premier nanosatellite GNSS science team to implement GNSS-R capabilities for terrestrial hydrology applications on our state-of-the-art CubeSat GNSS payload.

You will develop the soil moisture remote sensing algorithms and codes to turn GNSS-R bistatic radar measurements of the Earth surface into valuable terrestrial hydrology products (soil moisture, soil freeze-thaw, flood inundation, wetlands mapping, etc.) for a wide variety of global customers, and these products will lead the field in Earth observations from commercial CubeSats.You will have the responsibility to ensure that we deliver high-quality, low-latency Earth remote sensing products and the freedom to pursue novel, high-impact applications. And instead of your ideas and efforts sitting on a shelf or hidden in an academic journal, you will see and experience them actually working in space within months of conception and being used operationally by scientists and other end-users for years to come.

Responsibilities of your role:

Contributing to the mission design and operation of a GNSS-R bistatic radar payload on a large and growing constellation of Earth observation CubeSats.

Working with the GNSS payload team to implement GNSS-R retrieval algorithms focused on terrestrial hydrology applications into the existing and new versions of the GNSS bistatic radar receiver payload.

Supporting commissioning and operation of the GNSS-R payload after launch and performing agile development while on orbit to constantly increase capabilities and improve performance of the terrestrial hydrology remote sensing products.